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Exactly twenty years ago today, seven of the players on the current Norfolk Admirals roster were under two years of age. Little did they know on October 27, 1989, that their current team  then the ECHL's Hampton Roads Admirals  were being born. On that date, 5,602 fans were in attendance at Norfolk Scope Arena to see one of the ECHL's first expansion teams hit the ice for its first regular season game. The Admirals were taking on their cross-state rivals, the Virginia Lancers. "I was curious to see what kind of crowd we would get," said Admirals founder and Hall of Fame member Blake Cullen. "We had 6,200 for an exhibition game that previous February and I hoped...

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